NEW Fix for CTD when starting campaign (Nvidia, High End Cards)

**caravel** · 05-07-2010, 08:51

The link works fine: http://rapidshare.com/files/11521154...D_Fix.zip.html

Click on "free user".

**DEB8** · 05-13-2010, 23:43

Originally Posted by Asai Nagamasa

The link works fine: http://rapidshare.com/files/11521154...D_Fix.zip.html

Click on "free user".

I feel a trite foolish after trying your link!

In my defence I did various searches on the rapidshare.com website.

Following Peter123's instructions ( incorrectly ), I tried :-

MTWGoldv2.01CTD
MTWGoldv2.01CTDFix.
MTWGoldv2.01CTDFix.zip
files ( no trace ! )
115211547
files/115211547
files/115211547/MTWGoldv2.01CTDFix.zip.

Evidently I should have left in those _'s and/or the .html !!

Thanks for putting me right. Sorry re any "panic" caused.

**DEB8** · 05-14-2010, 19:51

File downloaded today.

It was very quick & easy ( minute or so max - unlike my previous attempt before xmas ) !

**DEB8** · 05-19-2010, 00:04

I have finally "Patched" my MTW+VI with the revised "Buttons".

I thought it may be useful to someone to advise the results of the "patch".

I have noted improvements as follows -

1) No CTD ( to date ) when clicking on "Resume" after ( say ) "Saving" - this was my main problem. Hopefully it is now cured.
2) I now have access ( finally ), to the two Tutorials!!
3) An apparent increase in "panning" speed when using the mouse cursor.

There is a possable slight increase in the occurance of "Drops to Taskbar". However, when this occurs, the game does not crash and just needs "reinstating" to full screen. To date, no such Drop to Taskbar has occurred during a Battle, and if anything, it occurs during the game boot up or whilst the introduction etc. is running.

Further comments to follow in due course re :

1) CTD when clicking on a particular province/s.
2) CTD when clicking on the arrows in the Training and or Building queue's, when the said province/s is reached.

NB: These two usually involve a province that has more buildings than the space allocated for viewing those buildings can hold, and occurs a few turns after the extra Building is built. I have no such province at present.

**MTW** · 08-03-2010, 19:28

FYI: I have bought Shogun TW Gold Edition and it works perfect with my NVIDIA 6800 (battles and campaign).

I also have Medieval TW with the VI ad-on, but I can only play the campaign map. Battles still have the problem with the mouse stalling.

**MTW** · 08-03-2010, 19:30

That is NVidia 8600 to be correct, with Windows XP and Intel Dual Core 3.0 GHz

**caravel** · 08-04-2010, 14:19

Welcome MTW,

The issues in-battle affecting the Nvidia 8xxx/9xxx series cards do not affect the 6xxx/7xxx series.

**DEB8** · 12-16-2010, 04:09

Further to my post of 19th May 2010,

No more Crashes to Desktop with error Warnings !! All existing problems solved !!
I now get a few Drops to taskbar ( which reverse perfectly - even during a Battle ) , but that's all.
It appears my Vista O/S does not like me playing the game whilst "background" tasks are running just after Booting up! But this I can cope with!

**drone** · 12-17-2010, 16:39

Excellent.

On the Vista line of thinking, both STW and MTW start up really weird when I have other programs running and minimized. STW was the worst, I got graphical glitches, and both zip up and down from the taskbar while coming up. I had to stop UAC on Vista as well, the "interrupt" while it checks the program out (for your own good!

) broke a lot of older games.

**DEB8** · 01-04-2011, 01:52

Yesterday, I had my first two CTD's since applying the Button Patch...

The first CTD occurred whilst I was moving an Assassin ( Burgundy to Provence or Toulouse )!

Here I lost a game year ( events but no battle/s ), plus my moves etc. ; as I had forgotten to save after
the Events & Battles had been completed ( following hitting the End Turn Button ).

( All events except two were the same ( for me ). The first difference was that my King did NOT die of an illness; the second that my best Assassin ( Guy of Gisbourne ) failed his mission and was executed!! )

The second CTD occurred during a battle. If I recall correctly, I was moving a unit to/from the main Army/Reinforcements boxes, on the pre battle screen.

Here I lost nothing, as I had saved the game, using the Quick Save at the top of the pre battle screen.

Moral - remember to save - ALWAYS!!

[ NB : I tend to save ( when I remember ) :

a) Directly before hitting the End Turn ( Next Year ) Button
b) Before any Battle ( Battle Screen Quick Save )
c) Upon completion of the Events & Battles by the AI

and sometimes after moving my units around, but before I review taxes, build buildings, train units, etc.. ]

Strangely, when I repeated each of the "moves" that caused each CTD, nothing happened...

**DEB8** · 01-04-2011, 02:02

Originally Posted by drone

Excellent.

On the Vista line of thinking, both STW and MTW start up really weird when I have other programs running and minimized. STW was the worst, I got graphical glitches, and both zip up and down from the taskbar while coming up. I had to stop UAC on Vista as well, the "interrupt" while it checks the program out (for your own good!

) broke a lot of older games.

Strange. On my Vista O/S I have not had the same problems with STW as I have had with MTW.
To date, I have not had any troubles with the UAC either, for any of my games, other than two ( MTW is one, but not STW ), where I need to confirm that the O/S can proceed before it starts running the game. Maybe it's because we have different Graphic's Cards...